Is Your Website Down

I recently ran across a cool little tool that monitors your website (or any site or sites for that matter). It's mainly for web developers who manage multiple sites, but even if you only have one site it is handy. Best of all it's free! That seems to be the norm with web tools today. So many talented people recognize the fact that it's good to give away something with the expectation that something (probably even better) will come back to them.

Ok, so head over to Are My Sites Up? and create an account. Then just enter in the site or sites that you want to monitor. If the site goes down for a significant amount of time you'll get an email. Then you'll receive another email when it comes back up. It's that simple and that is all the tool does. Oh, and you can also have it send a text message to your phone instead of an email!

I have sites on a couple of different hosts and one in particular has gone down for ten or fifteen minutes at a time (mostly during the night). The others have yet to go down in the six weeks or so that I've been using this tool. That tells me that I may want to change hosts or contact support at the host. If you do contact support you also have a record to prove that you're having a problem. A recent upgrade to the service gives you the error code that the site is returning.

Since we depend so much on our websites to market our businesses these days, making sure it stays up is important. Now you have an easy tool to keep an eye on it.

Hope you find this useful!

Brett Weaver
SpotLight Virtual Tours
Huntsville Alabama Virtual Tours
www.SpotLightvt.com

Order a Virtual Tour (931) 279-1047

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Just How Much Can You Make

If I had a nickel for every time I was asked that question by a prospect or a dealer in the field I would be writing this from my yacht off the coast of Malta.

Anyway...all you out there get your jumbo sized notepads out and grab a full box of pens because this is one MORE webinar that you certainly DON’T want to miss out on. $100k and the Graves Carey story. How on Earth did one man achieve $100,000 in one year! How did he reach such levels of success with the RTV product line after just a few years in business. And…moreover how has he been able to keep his competitors LOCKED out of town. Tune in Wednesday March 18th at 7:00 Eastern to The Formula episode 5 and listen while Jason LaVanture and Cheryl Waller interview Graves Carey.

Register Now inside of your TMS!

-Team RTV
www.RealTourVision.com


PS - Don’t forget to also register for next week’s episode which will be a recap on how to create your Exposure Engine, YouTube Video Tour and E-Flyer. See you on the shows!

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Big Mikes Take on Social Networking

I confess, at first I did not understand or realize the power of blogging sites like Twitter and Facebook. While other professionals have raved about the contacts, referrals, etc. that they have obtained from Social Networking sites, I initially did not see its true value or potential. However, a recent news story and my own experiences have shown me the power of these Social Networking sites.

If you have any misgivings about social networking’s business value, let me dismiss them for you now. Although social networks and online communities may not drive instantaneous sales, they can absolutely help you build customer retention - through gathering feedback, responding to concerns, sharing informational content, and more. In the case of responding to customers’ concerns, social networking is turning out to be a powerful retention tool. Many companies today are surfing online communities and social networking sites for customers’ comments and following up as a result. So, if you have a complaint many businesses are actively listening and willing to resolve the issue.

In this week's publication of BusinessWeek (March 2, 2009), there is a short article called "A Social Networker's Story: Zappos CEO and UPS Step In.“ The story describes how Tara Hunt, a marketing executive with Intuit, initially contacted UPS regarding the tracking of a delivery package and received a generic response from the customer service representative explaining that packages sometimes aren't delivered until 9 p.m. during the Christmas season. Not satisfied with the response, Tara called upon the power of Twitter and posted a message (known as a "tweet") describing how she wanted to walk her dog and was waiting on UPS to deliver a package. The message or tweet was relayed to the CEO of Zappos who was having dinner with UPS's President for the Western Region, who then mentioned the tweet to the UPS exec. The Zappos CEO replied to the tweet "someone will call." The UPS exec contacted the operations manager who then was able to schedule a pre-set delivery time. The UPS driver arrived not only with the package - but also flowers, chocolates, and dog toys. It was an excellent example of customer service. The question is though; did it pay off? Absolutely! Ms. Hunt now goes out of her way to use UPS and even purchased a pair of shoes from Zappos.

As word spreads of these types of stories, customers will increasingly want to experience it themselves—and may actually go to online communities before contacting a customer service department directly. (Or may look to see if they can contact a customer service team through their Social Network site.)

So here is what I’ve learned from the BusinessWeek article and my own personal experiences:

~Customers don’t like automated replies or generic responses.
~Customers love good information
~Customers can accept mistakes and problems if they know what is going on with their problem or complaint and obtain timely updates.
~When blogging or posting, remember that others are or may be listening (including friends, family, employers, competitors, etc.).
~If you are a company, you may just want to listen in on Twitter to see what your customers are saying about your company and the service it provides.
~A satisfied customer is more likely to be a source of repeat business and referrals.
~An unhappy customer will shout (louder than the happy one) from the rooftops the bad service they received.


Thank You
Michael Thompson
Real Vision Studio
Detroit Virtual Tours
www.RealVisionStudio.com
734-727-2276
Cell Phone 734-560-0213

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Localized Exposure For Your Virtual Tours

The Virtual Tour Website That Offers Some Interesting Benefits

In this article I'd like to share with you some information about my virtual tour company website Medallion Virtual Tours at www.Medallion360.com, including some key features that I think sets us apart from the average virtual tour site. I believe the most important feature of our site is how the “active” virtual tours and slide show presentations produced by Medallion Virtual Tours are linked and listed. We use a style similar to most real estate and vacation rental and lodging web sites. Using a familiar layout in design and navigation can quickly speed-up the learning curve for new visitors while moving them toward our virtual tour and slide show presentation links. Best of all, a click on a clients virtual tour link from our website will directly result in a www.Medallion360.com referral hit on that client’s Real Tour Vision (RTV) tour stats page.



I offer our "active” virtual tour listing as a FREE add-on service for our real estate, property management, vacation rental, restaurant and business clients. Our clients benefit in several ways, one from the added exposure and visitor traffic to their virtual tour links from our websites (www.Medallion360.com and www.CambriaVirtualTours.com) and two, from our top page position on Goggle, Yahoo and others. We even do some Google Adwords buys in key cities that we serve to help boost our exposure. It's great to look over our tour traffic reports and see Medallion360.com or CambriaVirtualTours.com as one of the top referring URL's listed on a client’s report. And let me tell you... the client does notice! That's a win, win in my book.



You might wonder how much work is involved in maintaining a web page that lists all of your “active” tours or real estate listings. Tasks like keeping the data up-to-date and fresh can be challenging, especially if you have a large number of “active” virtual tours, real estate listings or vacation rentals. Here’s how I do it, and I’d be happy to set-up a similar system for your virtual tour, real estate or vacation rental company. The Medallion Virtual Tours website was developed using php and MySQL database. I've developed a number of similar sites for real estate firms and vacation rental companies across America. If you are an RTV dealer, a real estate or property management firm, I'd be happy to set-up a dynamic site for your company. Imagine featuring your virtual tours, real estate listings or vacation rentals in a similar way. Best of all, the dynamic content management system (CMS) requires NO programming skills to maintain. All you need is an internet connection and a web browser. Updating your virtual tour or real estate data is accomplished by filling out a form. That’s it! For additional information check out my ActiveRain Blog or follow me on Twitter.




Bob Blandy
MEDALLION SERVICES
Central California Virtual Tours
www.Medallion360.com
Order a Virtual Tour or Dynamic Website (805)927-0161

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Tally Tours Expands Offering

This is the first RTV blog from the (relatively) new Head Photographer at Tally Tours, Inc. With the departure of our President, Myles Lasco, from our base in Tallahassee, I have taken over the day-to-day operations of shooting and creating the virtual tours for the community of Tallahassee, FL. And with Myles’s recent vacation to the land down under, it has fallen to me to write this update.

While business is fairly consistent and surprisingly steady for us in these winter months, it does not seem to be the same for our partners in crime, the Realtors. We stay busy, of course, because the Realtors are doing everything they can think of to sell homes, and virtual tours are thankfully something that they think of. However, in these economically-fractured times, it seems that the more creative one can be with their small business, the more successful they will be. Therefore, I’d like to announce that Tally Tours, Inc. will be branching out from just the real estate community in Tallahassee.

We have developed the commercial side of our business and have begun to seek out clients who may not otherwise realize just how beneficial a virtual tour can be for their business. We will be reaching out to residential businesses such as apartments, hotels, and retirement homes but also to restaurants and other businesses that may host parties and functions and would like to advertise their beautiful facilities. Also, I was recently in San Diego shooting a tour for the San Diego Yacht Club (which you can see at their website www.sdyc.org). Along that line, we’re going to be offering tours to resorts and golf clubs so that they can add virtual tours to their marketing and advertising strategies.

Finally, we are reaching out to local schools and churches, who I doubt have ever thought about having virtual tours created for them. This would help not only the schools (particularly the private schools) but also families moving to Tallahassee would be able to find these virtual tours and research their new community before they relocate. The community virtual tours, such as the schools and churches, will also be available to local Realtors to put on their websites which I believe will help them get more business from the relocating population.

Who can say how the future of the real estate market will affect the virtual tour business, but with this new commercial side of the business, we believe we can keep our small business steady and likely even grow significantly in 2009.

Best,

Kevin Wohlgemuth
Head Photographer
(850) 491-3909
www.TallyTours.com

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Hot Shots Digital Finds Success!

“Do you know how hard it is to start a business?” "Do you know how many fail?" This is what we heard from almost everyone that we spoke with. Fortunately for us, we had no choice.

Our journey up to this point hasn’t been easy, but it has certainly been worthwhile. We began our Colorado Virtual Tour and Photography Company in October of 2007 and were looking to build a small business that could supplement our income. I was working for a large home builder in Denver, and Beth (my loving wife) was working at a Bakery in the Loveland area at the time. Because of the Colorado economy and what was happening in the New Home Industry, it became increasingly hard to maintain a positive attitude, and sometimes even to wake up in the morning. However, our dreams were gigantic, and my wife kept me looking forward.

Then it happened… the Denver Home Builder that I was working for decided to close its doors in July. OUCH! I knew that I needed to do something right away so that I could pay the bills, and more importantly, support my wife and 2 little girls. We did have Hot Shots Digital, but it wasn’t making us nearly enough to cover our expenses. We decided to take our little Loveland / Ft Collins Virtual Tour business, which started out as an idea, and turn it into what we had been talking about for over a year.


The days were very long, and although we could barely afford it, Aspirin and Spaghetti were major staples in our home until about the middle of December. We began getting calls from Real Estate Agents and people wanting to sell their homes by owner (FSBO). Our Colorado Tours started to become sought after and better known. The time, the webinars, and learning about how to market a Virtual Tour business in Colorado started to really pay off. Hard work and dedication was no longer a useless cliché that Grandpa used to say, it was our mode of survival, and it worked! Hot Shots Digital was finally becoming the professional choice in Virtual Tours for Colorado!



Hot Shots Digital had it's first productive month in January ‘09, and our business seems to be growing exponentially. Our dreams of owning a successful photography business in Colorado have been recaptured, and we have expanded the household dinner menu.


I'm certainly not writing this to brag about what I've done, but to give hope to anyone who is starting a business and is having a difficult time. Small business is the true "Heart of America". From the Day Care Provider to the Carpenter, and the Real Estate Agent to the Virtual Tour Photographer, we are all what makes America what it needs to be. If Grandpa were here, he would look you right in the eye and say……


"Keep your chin up kid!”

May your efforts be worthwhile!



Nathan Strauch
Hot Shots Digital
My Colorado Virtual Tours
www.hotshotpros.com
Order a Virtual Tour (877) 447-6326

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100K the Graves Carey Story

Tune in March 18 for episode 5 of The Formula. Hosts Jason LaVanture and Cheryl Waller of Team RTV have a live interview with veteran RTV virtual dealer Graves Carey. Graves, owner of 360 Visions, LLC has been with RTV now for seven years and has produced upwards of 100 tours a month completely on his own.

A happy bachelor and owner of two beautiful Harley Davidson motorcycles, Graves will reveal some of his top secrets with the rest of the RTV dealer network. Learn what successful techniques and methods Graves has repeated over and over to build his thriving virtual tour company in the small town of Rehoboth Beach, DE working his way to the top of the RTV dealer network.

Finally, discover how Graves has been able to successfully keep competitors such as Obeo and Circlepix out of his market and continues to deliver several hundred tours annually using RTV virtual tour technology exclusively.

Sign up for this webinar in your TMS NOW!
Team RTV
National Virtual Tour Company

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TaylorMade Design on Economic Blues

Let's face it. Every single time we see the evening news, pick up the morning paper, or get our Fox News feed, the headlines are all the same: Economic Meltdown. People are losing jobs left and right, retailers and going under, and the housing market is in a slump. And then, one thing feeds on another. A loss of job means loss of income which means cutting spending on frivolous (or not) retail items (but I need the iphone for my business!). Cutting the retail spending means retailers have to cut back which means more loss of jobs. This loss of jobs means people can't afford to pay for their home anymore with means they have to sell.

Have you seen the size of Realtor magazines and classified ads these days? They're as thick as a Dallas phone book. Houses aren't moving.

This is where we, as East Texas virtual tour and property marketing experts, come in. If we can get our amazing technology and exposure engine in front of ‘John and Jane Realtor', or For Sale by Owners, and they can use this amazing technology to literally flood the internet and social networks at the click of a mouse, then home sales can do nothing but go up. And the great thing is, when they use our Property Exposure Engine with our Tyler Virtual Tour services, they aren't just reaching a ‘minimal market' where someone going in to get groceries just happens to pick up one of these rotund catalogs, they are spanning the globe and maximizing exposure!

Social Networking on overload anyone?

Now thanks to this technology, the life altering job acceptance 10 states away doesn't have to be so stressful. Buyers can pick out a new home before they even leave the state! He or she now has the technology to view everything from the driveway to that huge walk in closet of the home they've always dreamed of. And they found it on facebook through a friend that saw it on another social network!

And it doesn't stop there! Really ambitious Texas VT providers that cater to the needs of real estate agents don't limit themselves to virtual tours of homes. Why not include a virtual tour of the whole city on your real estate website! Spotlight the landmarks, schools, parks, anything that makes the people of that city proud. This way, not only does the potential buyer get to see their new home, they can see their new neighborhood, visit their kids new school, and see the park where they will soon be walking their dog. Oh and they saw it on YOUR website.. the one with the cool virtual tour of the town!

These are the things that set us apart and let us make a difference. You can't get that from a 2"x2" black and white print ad that you have to sell a kidney to afford. I know that we can't feasibly fix the entire nations economy, but if we do our part to help the Realtors & FSBO's do their part, we give the economy a boost in the place where it is hurting the most...The Housing Market.

Stop by my website to learn more about driving traffic to your site and using virtual tours and our Property Marketing Expertise to maximize your presence on the web. The information is free, you don't have to buy a thing from us and just one idea could turn your ‘marketing plan' into a ‘marketing funnel'!


Michael Taylor
TaylorMade Design
East Texas Virtual Tours
www.taylormadedesign.com
Order A Virtual Tour (903) 769-1276

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RTV Virtual Tour Marketing is a MUST!

I've been an RTV dealer with my in Company Perfect Images Treasure Coast Virtual Tours for over two years now. It took me that long to discover The Inner-Circle Virtual Tour Marketing Membership. Oh, I knew it existed. I just enjoyed doing my own advertising, creating flyers, cards, emails etc and thought I could do it on my own. Which I would be able to if the day had 48 hours! A person can only do so much. When RTV announced the Inner Circle Membership I just said to myself that it was something for dealers that did not have the knowledge nor expertise in advertising. Boy, was I wrong!

When I logged in for the first time I was overwhelmed with everything in there. Still a month into my membership I haven't seen 95% of what is in there. New RTV virtual tour providers get full access to this stuff for THREE MONTHS when they first sign up. RTV did not have the marketing program when I became a dealer but they make it very affordable for me to check this out.

I now know, that the RTV Inner-Circle is going to save me time and money, time I can use to reach more customers and make money. RTV dealers have the marketing and development support of their business. Every month RTV posts new marketing materials to help your virtual tour company grow.

Being an Inner- Circle member is optional. I recommend joining simply to have access to each episode of "The Formula", the monthly newsletter that is written for me to give to my customers, the press releases that are back there, and the amazing power point presentations they have for you. It's all done for you!

Cheryl does a wonderful job getting lots of free and low cost resource information for us. Real Tour Vision has done a wonderful job by teaming up with RPM and Cheryl Waller to create more support for all dealers.

Thanks RTV!!!!

Claudia Jaramillo
Perfect Images
Treasure Coast Virtual Tours
www.360perfectimages.com

Order a Virtual Tour 772-559-2364

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Battleground Virtual Tours

Circle Shot Media offers Vancouver virtual tours and specializes in online marketing of Real Estate properties, and business locations. We are located in the Salmon Creek area and will be happy to provide superior quality 360 degree interactive virtual tours to the entire Portland / Vancouver metro area from Beaverton to Battle Ground and beyond. Circle Shot Media takes your business very seriously, and we are proud to provide family style customer service that will leave a lasting positive impression.

Circle Shot Media is partnered Real Tour Vision with the industry leader in Virtual Tours. Real Tour Vision and Jason Lavanture have made it easy to get started in the virtual tour business. The staff at RTV has been outstanding to work with, I always know that they will have answers to my questions.



Peter Smith
Circle Shot Media
Battleground Wa Virtual Tours

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Houston Real Estate Agent Showcase

Lenee' Photography Spotlights Woodlands real estate agent Jo Anne Johnson with Coldwell Banker United. We encourage you to take time to explore her background, qualifications, and dedication!

Your interest comes first! Whether you're looking to buy or sell real estate, you can expect her to go the distance for you in providing market analysis data and honest counsel to determine a competitive and reasonable price that works to your advantage!

Jo Anne's personal philosophy: Give your best... Expect even more... And never, never quit. This has been a driving force for my success.

As a resident of The Woodlands for over 12 years, Jo Anne has tremendous pride in her community and surrounding area, and can help you make informed decisions regarding schools, taxes, insurance, and other considerations based on your needs and priorities.

It's been a pleasure for Jo Anne serving as a volunteer and active member of local organizations, including her church community, where she finds tremendous strength and inspiration. Her background in performance arts combined with her experience as a manager for a leading Fortune 500 insurance industry leader are manifested in her drive to meet and exceed expectations, interpersonal/leadership skills, and overall ability to work towards a common goal.

Her parents often said, "You get out of something what you put into it." She is humbled by the opportunity to work with so many clients that have come to her by referral or repeat business, and she assures you She'll give you her very best!

Let Jo Anne go to work for you!
Specialties: Custom Home, Dream Home, First Time Buyers, Luxury Homes, Move-Up Home, New Home, Quality Home, Residential, 360 Virtual Tours, Professional Photography.

Mike Stolte
Lenee' Photography
Houston Virtual Tour Company
www.leneephotography.com
Order a virtual tour - (832) 247-0634

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PRESS RELEASE - Mac Village Productions Partners with RTV

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RTV™ Announces New Full Service Provider in Rochester, NY

Rochester, NY February 9, 2009— Mac Village Productions has recently partnered with Real Tour Vision™ (RTV), the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual tour software provider. As a Real Tour Vision full service virtual tour provider Mac Village Productions will be able to offer state-of-the-art virtual tours and innovative online marketing solutions to local real estate agents and businesses. Mac Village Productions has completed proprietary training as a certified RTV full service dealer and will also be offering their clients and customers expert advice on internet marketing.

Rick Simons, President of Real Tour Vision said, “Today, more than ever, clients need a media rich internet presence that will covert internet visitors into leads. Bill Harris brings a wealth of experience with marketing, web design, search engine optimization (SEO), multi-media, and photography that will serve his clients well throughout upstate New York and the Finger Lakes region. As a true marketing consultant, Bill is a welcome addition to the Real Tour Vision dealership network.”

Bill Harris, Real Tour Vision Provider and president of Mac Village Productions stated, “Nearly all shopping now begins with an Internet search. Our goal is to help Western, NY business owners differentiate themselves through Virtual Internet Marketing by incorporating great website designs with Virtual Tours, Infomercials, and Photography! We are truly excited to be partnered with the best Virtual Tour technology provider in the world - RTV! With this partnership we are now able to complete our offerings to our customers with one place to go for Web Site Design, Virtual Tours & Infomercials, Commercial Photography, and Apple Consulting.” Since 1999, Real Tour Vision™ has continually led the way in the virtual tour industry with marketing implementations such as their proprietary interactive software, RTV™ PanoRider™, single property websites, on-demand Virtual Tour Traffic Reporting 2.0, 2D/3D interactive floor plans, animated walk-throughs, custom websites, proprietary order-dispatch system, tour audio solutions, tour discs and sketch-and-fax services. For more information call 585-520-2232, email wkharris@macvillagepro.com or visit their website at www.macvillagepro.com.

About Real Tour Vision™ Real Tour Vision™ is a recognized leader in interactive 360 panoramic virtual tours and virtual tour software. Over the past 8 years, the virtual tour software company has built up one of the world's largest and most powerful networks of virtual tour providers. The company encourages prospective virtual tour provider and real estate agent network clients to begin by making logical business decisions, working out the numbers, and finally choosing the Real Tour Vision™ virtual tour software system to drive their virtual tour company or enhance their real estate website with virtual tour software products. RTV™ virtual tours are chosen over other virtual tour software programs daily by intelligent business owners who demand the best virtual tour software to showcase and market their businesses online. Real Tour Vision™ and RTV™ are trademarks of Tour Vision, Inc.

About Mac Village ProductionsMac Village Productions is Upstate NY's premiere full service provider for Apple Consulting, Innovative Web 2.0 Website design work, and Rich Media incorporating virtual interactive presentation through the use of Real Tour Vision virtual tours, video and photography services.

Mac Village Productions was founded in 2008 by William K. Harris. Our production team is managed by Designer, Photographer, and Film Editor Bill Harris. He along with a skilled team of graphic designers, developers and innovators push the envelope of creativity to deliver more value with minimal investment.

Mr. Harris is an experienced Information Technology Professional with over 25 years of experience selling and implementing complex global enterprise solutions. He excels at conveying solid Return on Investments which have allowed him to close more then $200M in solutions sales.

As an Information Technology Specialist; Bill has led high performance client solution engagements thru the life cycle of opportunity identification, business development, product management, implementation, and deployment. He has extensive experience in data storage, content management, and business workflow solutions utilizing a plethora of different technologies.

As a Technology professional, Bill has served in an executive capacity in business operations such as EMC North American Solutions Division, PTC Global Services, and Xerox Global Services. In these positions he led client facing solutions focused project teams, large scale technology outsource programs, and performed as an executive consultant.

He is now taking these years of experience and applying them to Mac Village Productions to drive outstanding solutions and value for his customers.

William K. Harris

Mac Village Productions

Rochester Virtual Tour Provider

www.macvillagepro.com

Order a 360 virtual tour - 585-520-2232

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BlueLaVaMedia Launches New E-Flyer

BlueLaVaMedia is excited to announce our latest product roll out called our Exposure E-Flyer. The BlueLaVaMedia Exposure E-Flyer is included free of charge with the purchase of our extremely popular Exposure Engine. 75% of all virtual tours produced in 2008 received our Exposure Engine and thus far in 2009 all have ordered this product.

The BlueLaVaMedia Exposure Engine includes:
• Full virtual tour syndication to many popular real estate related portal sites
• Video conversion
• Video distribution to popular video sites
• and now our new Exposure E-Flyer.

The Exposure E-Flyer is an HTML email that can be saved and emailed out to several prospects at a time as well as customized and edited by the listing agent once it has been delivered. The Exposure E-Flyer allows up to six images with a link directly to the interactive virtual tour, the agents virtual tour gallery and (of course) the agents website.

Because the Exposure E-Flyer can be saved by the listing agent and used at any time, the agent is also able to make quick edits to pricing on the flyer as well as add in new images as seasons change or make quick text edits to the flyer with little technical knowledge required.

All of these great property marketing tools and syndication for a mere $20.00! The BlueLaVaMedia Exposure Engine offers MAXIMUM virtual tour exposure and just keeps getting better all the time. Stay tuned for more amazing product enhancements from your property marketing experts, team BlueLaVa!

"Jim,
Thank you so much!!!! These E-Flyers are gorgeous!!! I love them and you do such an awesome job - you make it difficult to live without you!!"
Diane Ocenasek
RE/MAX Higgins Lake


"Jim, AWESOME! What is the cost for these new E-Flyers?"
Faye Fitch
Century 21 Sleeping Bear Realty
www.nwmichiganproperties.com

Jason LaVanture & Jim Blue
Traverse City Virtual Tours
http://www.bluelavamedia.com/
Order a Virtual Tour Today : 231-946-1360
Proud to offer Michigan Virtual Tours!

***ATTENTION RTV DEALERS***

Stay tuned RTV dealers for The Formula episode 4 "Creating Your Exposure Engine"

Jason LaVanture, owner of BlueLaVaMedia and VP of RTV, Inc. will be revealing how to create your own Exposure E-Flyer, your video tour with backlink power, your posting to Craigslist and so much more. The Formula episode 4 will be held on Wednesday Feburary 18th at 7:00 Eastern.

Register now inside your Tour Management System left-hand navigation!!!

Here's what others are saying about the show:

"Love it you guys....so amazing!....need to get more of those meetings going!"
Nancy Taylor
Virtually Taylor'd
757-810-6178


"WOW!!!! Great Session Guys! Talk about useful information - my head is spinning!!! So much to
learn and do!!! I learned allot and now even realize how many more things I need to do."
Bill Harris
www.macvillagepro.com


Good Luck out there!!

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Business and Commercial Virtual Tours

We are here to offer you the best advertising for your money! Thinking Outside the box is essential in a down market. Statistics have shown that marketing on the Internet is cost effective. 80% of consumers search for information online and say images are imperative when making a decision. That means at least 60% of your marketing dollars should be spent optimizing your company online. Let me tell you what we at Perfect Images can do for you!

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Restaurant 360 Virtual Tours

Make sure your restaurant is remembered. A virtual tour is a great way to differentiate your restaurant from the competition. Provide other web sites with your Indian River County virtual tour to increase your exposure.

• The daily cost for print advertising varies between $66 and $150 per day and has a shelf life averaging around 30 days. Print advertising has a limited market penetration based on your distribution and does not allow the
  consumer to interact or engage with the advertisement.
• While the cost of a virtual tour averages around 27
  CENTS per day. With a shelf life of 365 days and WORLDWIDE penetration the cost to interact with your
  client is MUCH less.

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360 Conference, Meetings & Events

Does the success of your business depend upon booking conferences, meetings, Vero Beach weddings, conventions, or other events? Do you have Saint Lucie County 360° panoramic virtual tours on your web site so professional planners can "walk through" and "look around" your facilities... quickly and easily from their office, home, or anywhere else they choose?

• As of August 2006, over half of American adult Internet users (61%) have taken virtual tours of another
  location online. (2006 Pew Internet & American Life Study)

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Recreation Facilities & Scenic Vitual Tours

Entertainment Halls, Theaters, Sport Stadiums, Theme Parks, Water Parks, Golf Courses so as to promote the entertainment hall for the purpose of increasing ticket sales. Scenic: Campground, City and Towns, Marina, Neighborhood, Parks. We are a recognized leader in interactive 360° panoramic virtual tours on the Treasure Coast. Our technology is the perfect solution for anyone trying to sell anything via the web, real estate, or a brokerage looking to efficiently and cost effectively create their own 360° real estate tours.

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Hotel and Resort Virtual Tour

Perfect Images Treasure Coast Virtual Tours can dramatically increase the quality of your St Lucie, Indian River County hotel or resort web site and directly increase online reservations and return visits from your customers. Most people are now using the web as their first source of information in making travel plans. Panoramic Virtual Tours allow web site users to immerse themselves into a scene. It has never been more important for the viewers to get a real perspective on where they will be staying, or dining, or sight seeing.

• 96.2% of travelers use the Internet as a source of information when planning a trip
• In cyberspace, a site with a virtual tour and interactive media will receive 38% more views than a competitor's site that is lacking media. (2006 Pew Internet & American Life Study)

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We can customize the look and feel of our tours to create a professional grade virtual tour of any type of property or item including but not limited to:

Artists' Galleries Auctions Auto Dealers Corporate Use
Beauty Salons Banquet Facilities Bed & Breakfast Builders
Churches Campgrounds
Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods Commercial Real Estate
Corporate Offices Condominium Units Events For Sale by Owner Real Estate
General Contractors Golf Courses
Health & Fitness Clubs Historic Buildings Insurance Documentation Libraries Marinas and Boat Dealers Medical Offices & Hospitals
Mobile Home Dealers Motels & Hotels
Museums Nursing Homes & Retirement Facilities Parks & Recreation Resorts
Restaurants RV's & Motor Homes Scenic Areas Schools
Spas Stores
Vacant Land Vacation Rentals

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Our commercial and Business Photography is geared towards businesses looking to leverage high quality digital images on an unlimited use, royalty- free basis. We give you all the still photography taken in the photo shoot on a cd for you to use on all your advertising needs.

Sincerely,
Claudia Jaramillo

Indian River Virtual Tour Company
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